‘Oh wow, the AI just tagged my profile picture as basic’

In this Twitter exchange, jetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face -- from the DHS

Facebook wants to make sure you know about and control the photos of you people upload, even if they don’t tag you. So today, Facebook launched a new facial recognition feature called Photo Review that will alert you when your face shows up in newly posted photos so you can tag yourself, leav…

Facebook recently started using face recognition in more ways.

Metropolitan Police had said people declining to be scanned would 'not necessarily be viewed as suspicious'

System dubbed ‘the capability’ processes Australians’ information whether they are crime suspects or not

Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.

Beijing’s underground system is planning to introduce 'bio-identification' technology including facial recognition in what it says is an effort to streamline passenger flow through its stations.

Amazon in June pitched its facial recognition technology as a tool for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Madison Square Garden, and Kennedy International Airport both use facial-recognition software to identify their customers. Who else does?

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Airport officials rolled out the system expecting to increase security and decrease boarding times.

The Independent on the scene as police trial controversial new technology

Amazon’s face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern. In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool, called “Rekognition,” the software incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress, identifying them as other people who have been arrested for a crime. The members of Congress who were falsely matched with the mugshot database we used in the test include Republicans and Democrats, men and women, and legislators of all ages, from all across the country.

In order to protect civil liberties without hampering innovation, lawmakers should require public input before surveillance tools are deployed and ensure that facial recognition databases are purged of data related to law-abiding people.

Today the American Civil Liberties Union Foundations of California released emails between Amazon employees and local law enforcement revealing how the company has been pushing its facial re